Mount Gable, Binn Shleibhe 417.8m hill, Partry & Joyce SE: Cornamona Ireland at MountainViews.ie

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Partry & Joyce Area SE: Cornamona Subarea

Place count in area: 27, OSI/LPS Maps: 37, 38, CBE, EW-CON, MSW
Highest place:

Maumtrasna, 682m
Maximum height for area: 682 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 607 metres,

Places in area Partry & Joyce:
Cen: Finny:

Glenbeg East 372m
Cen: Knocknafaughy:

Knocknafaughy 254m

Rinavore 426m
Cen: Maumtrasna:

Barnahowna 516m

Buckaun East 495m

Glennagleragh Mtn 617m

Knocklaur 518m

Maumtrasna 682m

Maumtrasna North-East Top 572m

Tullymorehill 279m
N: Ballintober Hills:

Bohaun 393m

Corveagh 233m

Croaghrimkarra 271m

Keelkil 239m
SE: Cornamona:

Mount Gable 417.8m

Bohaun 424m

Knocknagussy 456m
SW: Bunnacunneen:

Ben Beg 560m

Bunnacunneen 575m

Bunnacunneen South Top 539m

Bunnacunneen SE Top 479m

Lugnabrick SW Top 494m

Lugnabrick NE Top 494m
W: Devilsmother:

Devilsmother 645m

Devilsmother South Top 509m

Devilsmother North Top 595m

Devilsmother Far North Top 601m

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.

Mount Gable Hill Binn Shleibhe A name in Irish, also Benlevy an extra name in English (Ir. Binn Shleibhe [OSI], 'peak of the mountain/moorland'). It is
often known as Mount Gable locally. Galway County in Connacht Province, in Carn List, Schists, grits, metavolcanics, mylonitic Bedrock

Height: 417.8m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 38 Grid Reference: M05017 54904
Place visited by 85 members. Recently by: jkforde, elizauna, abcd, osullivanm, simon3, pdtempan, Tomaslj, Haulie, Ghreallaigh, TommyMc, GoldCircle, mrmikelennon, peterturner, obrien116, TommyV
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Longitude: -9.433285, Latitude: 53.53568 , Easting: 105018, Northing: 254905 Prominence: 352m, Isolation: 4.5km, Has trig pillar
ITM: 504988 754926, GPS IDs, 6 char: MntGbl, 10 char: MntGbl
Bedrock type: Schists, grits, metavolcanics, mylonitic, (Ben Levy Grit Formation)

Benlevy dominates the narrow neck of land between Lough Mask and Lough Corrib, on which Clonbur and Cong are situated. Walks: for a route to the summit from the SE, see Whilde & Simms, New Irish Walk Guide - West and North, 58-59. Binn Shleibhe is the 861st highest place in Ireland. Binn Shleibhe is the second most southerly summit and also the second most easterly in the Partry & Joyce area.
Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/758/

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childs play .. by TadghKennedy (Show all for Mount Gable (Binn Shleibhe))

Perfectly located between two lakes. .. by TommyV (Show all for Mount Gable (Binn Shleibhe))

MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Mount Gable (<i>Binn Shleibhe</i>) in area Partry & Joyce, Ireland

Picture: Lough Coolin of the irregular edges.

Great views of nearby Lough Coolin.

by simon3 28 May 2022

On a summery day in 2022 our party looked down on Lough Coolin to the NE of the Benlevy ridge. To the top of the picture is part of Lough Mask and to the top right some of the village of Clonbur. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/758/comment/23521/

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		Some mapping: Open Street Map (Various variations used.)	British summit data courtesy: Database of British & Irish Hills (Creative Commons Licence)
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